國際傳媒新聞：2018/07/13~07/19
Facing a hostile White House, reporters try a new tactic: Solidarity
When Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to answer a reporter’s follow-up question, another reporter gave her his chance: “Hallie,” he said, “go ahead if you want.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM / JUL 19
Facebook will begin taking down fake news that encourages violence
“Facebook will work with to-be-named outside local and international organizations as well as its own internal image recognition technologies to help spot these types of offensive items. Parties will have to confirm the information is false, and other groups may be asked to weigh in. Although the policy change is upcoming, the company used these principles to remove posts in Sri Lanka alleging Muslims were poisoning food given or sold to Buddhists.”
CNBC / MICHELLE CASTILLO / JUL 19
Meet digital fake news sleuth Jonathan Albright
“So that weekend, sitting alone in his studio apartment at the northern tip of Manhattan, Albright pulled an all-nighter, following YouTube recommendations down a dark vortex that led from one conspiracy theory video to another until he’d collected data on roughly 9,000 videos. On Sunday, he wrote about his findings on Medium. By Monday, his investigation was the subject of a top story on Buzzfeed News. And by Thursday, when I met Albright at his office, he was chugging a bottle of Super Coffee (equal parts caffeine boost and protein shake) to stay awake.”
WIRED / ISSIE LAPOWSKY / JUL 19
What lawmakers said about the tariffs on the Canadian newsprint
“Added King, an independent: ‘The press is the only industry in America with its own line in the Constitution and the First Amendment, and what you’re considering today is a very unusual case that brings into conflict two principles that are important to the establishment of the country. One is, you have to obey the law, and the law is in regards to tariffs. But the other principle is the First Amendment, and I would argue that these two principles run into one another. They are in conflict. This is a special case.’”
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD / ERIC RUSSELL / JUL 19
A philanthropy-backed journalism fellowship spotlights equitable climate solutions
“When you start to hear about this kind of bottom-up work people are doing in communities, which is often tightly connected to public health, housing, labor, and more, it can give a kind of three-dimensional picture of climate change beyond talk of markets and models. That’s the kind of storytelling that’s potentially powerful for both environmental journalism and climate action.”
INSIDE PHILANTHROPY / TATE WILLIAMS / JUL 19
Vietnam suspends local news website on accusation of false news
“Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communication announced that the state-run publication would be suspended for three months and fined 20 million dong (US$10,000) for a June 19 report that authorities said misquoted President Tan Dai Quang endorsing a law on public demonstrations.”
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS / JUL 18
Remember how the L.A. Times was forced by a judge to alter an article? The judge reversed course
“U.S. District Judge John F. Walter had issued the order Saturday after The Times published information on its website about a plea agreement between prosecutors and the former detective. The agreement had been sealed by the court but was placed in a court database of documents accessible to the public.”
LOS ANGELES TIMES / VICTORIA KIM / JUL 18
The CNN baby boom: How 8 pregnant journalists have covered this relentless news cycle
“In December, when [CNN Newsroom anchor Poppy Harlow] was eight months pregnant, a spokesperson for anti-choice Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore told her that Moore would protect ‘babies like yours in the womb,’ as opposed to his opponent, Doug Jones, who would support ‘killing them.’ ‘Let’s leave my child out of this,’ Harlow told her.”
COSMOPOLITAN / PATTI GRECO / JUL 17
“How can we cover global climate change or migration from a national perspective?” asks Grzeszyk, explaining the natural shift toward collaborative, cross-border journalism. Collaborating is different than hiring a fixer, which is why Hostwriter wants to promote the relationship of co-authorship.
IJNET.ORG / NATALIA SMOLENTCEVA / JUL 17
Is this photojournalism’s moment of reckoning?
“These men are behaving badly, but there are also publications that harbor them,” says Polina V. Yamshchikov, a documentary photojournalist who lives in New York. “There is a calculus there, unconscious or not, of who is valuable and who is not in our industry.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / KRISTEN CHICK / JUL 17
In Vermont, an unlikely ombudsman spurs review of domestic violence coverage
“In the future, all Times Argus stories involving a loss of life will pass through additional editors, says Mitchell. The paper will also develop a checklist for reporting on domestic violence incidents. Finally, Mitchell says the paper is reconsidering its standards for stories in other beats to see if there is room for improvement.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / JUSTIN RAY / JUL 13
India’s fight against fake news has a problem: Fact-checking needs to reach the regional languages
Fake news in India isn’t going unchallenged. But fact-checking operations often produce most of their content in English — a language only spoken by about 10 percent of India’s population. Some websites have also set up dedicated Hindi pages, extending their fact-checking news to the more than 60 percent of the population. But even with these efforts, 20 other official languages are still be excluded, which these sites don’t have resources to tackle.
THE SPLICE NEWSROOM / VICTORIA MILKO / JUL 13
“These jobs are more than bullets at the end of a resume, though — there’s a lot to learn from taking a non-journalism summer job instead of, or in addition to, an internship, which is a financial necessity for many.”
POYNTER / TAYLOR BLATCHFORD / JUL 13
